In Sickness and in Wealth: Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java - Couverture souple

Chan, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253037069 ISBN 13 : 9780253037060

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions to migrate. Villagers evaluate men and women's migrations differently, leading to different ideas about which kinds of human or financial flows should be encouraged and which should be discouraged or even criminalize. Despite routine and well-documented instances of Indonesian migrant labor exploitation, some villagers still emphasize that a migrant's success or failure ultimately depends on that individual's morality, fate, and destiny. Indonesian villagers construct strategies for avoiding migration-related risks which are closely linked to faith and belief in supernatural agency. These strategies shape the flow of migration from the country and help to ensure the continued faith Indonesian people have in migration as an act of promise and hope.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Chan is a postdoctoral fellow with the Interdisciplinary Program for Migration Studies (PRIEM) at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253037069
• ISBN 13: 9780253037060
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
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